The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... thought , and want of novelty , often from the reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - fecond year he first shewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dryden ; and foon afterwards published a tranflation ...
... thought , and want of novelty , often from the reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - fecond year he first shewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dryden ; and foon afterwards published a tranflation ...
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... thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to Britons , attend . Now , heavily in clouds , came on the day , the great , the important day , when Addison was to ftand the hazard of the theatre . That there might ...
... thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to Britons , attend . Now , heavily in clouds , came on the day , the great , the important day , when Addison was to ftand the hazard of the theatre . That there might ...
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... thought extrinsick and adven- titious ; for if it were taken away , what would be left ? or how were the four acts filled in the first draught ? At the publication the wits feemed proud to to pay their attendance with encomiastick ver ...
... thought extrinsick and adven- titious ; for if it were taken away , what would be left ? or how were the four acts filled in the first draught ? At the publication the wits feemed proud to to pay their attendance with encomiastick ver ...
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... thought the humour of the Freeholder too nice and gentle for fuch noify times ; and is reported to have said that the ministry made ufe of a lute , when they should have called for a trumpet . This year * he married the countefs dowa ...
... thought the humour of the Freeholder too nice and gentle for fuch noify times ; and is reported to have said that the ministry made ufe of a lute , when they should have called for a trumpet . This year * he married the countefs dowa ...
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... thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her fon . Rowe's ballad of the De- Spairing Shepherd is faid to have been written , either before or after marriage , upon this me- morable pair ; and it is ...
... thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her fon . Rowe's ballad of the De- Spairing Shepherd is faid to have been written , either before or after marriage , upon this me- morable pair ; and it is ...
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